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Govt officers arrested with Sambar meat in Arunachal
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Twelve people, including government officers, were arrested with huge quantity of banned raw Sambar meat at Seijosa in East Kameng district in Arunachal Pradesh on Monday, officials said.
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Nine spotted deer die in West Bengal
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Six spotted deer died of exhaustion while being transported to another park in West Bengal Thursday, a senior forest official said.
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Elephant holds up trains on tracks
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Over the years, pleas from forest officials to railway authorities on regulation of trains that pass through protected areas have fallen on deaf ears, so it would seem the elephants have taken the matter into their own hands.
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40 young rare cobras killed in West Bengal village
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Residents of Hemtabad village in West Bengal"s North Dinajpur District have claimed that they have killed around 40 young rare cobras.
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Tiger panel to review projects
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The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), a statutory body under ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) monitoring all 39 tiger reserves in India,
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Forest dept goes tough against cutting of trees
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The process of cutting down of trees like Mango, Neem and Sheesham, even on private land, will get tougher and costlier in the state.
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Two tigers trapped in Sunderbans reserve
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Two tigers were trapped in quick succession by the authorities of the Sunderbans Tiger Reserve on Tuesday to mitigate man-animal conflict on the estuarine islands, officials of the West Bengal Forest Department said on Wednesday.
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Wildlife institute to monitor Olive Ridley Turtles in Orissa
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Alarmed by the dwindling population of Olive Ridley Turtles in Orissa, the Dehradun-based Wildlife Institute of India has set up a temporary study camp at Ganjam district of the state to monitor their nesting, breeding and migration.
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Tripura minister for access, benefit sharing of forests
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Tripura Forest Minister Jitendra Choudhury has urged the groups lobbying for the cause of environment to plead for increasing the sphere of access and benefit sharing of forestry resources.
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Land for all adivasis: VS
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V S Achuthanandhan said that he would make Kerala the first state where the whole of adivasis would get land and house. He also added that adivasis play a great role in curbing poaching and protect the forests.
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‘Tourism overkill endangering Corbett’
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Alarmed at the uncontrolled tourist flow into the Corbett National Park, Brijendra Singh, the park’s honorary wildlife warden, has emphasised the need for the State Government to ‘act urgently’ to check tourism and ensure that it did not turn the park into a 'glorified, large zoo'.
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Stalled tigress death probe gets a leg-up
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Investigations into the 11-day-old murder mystery of an eight-year-old tigress in the Bandhavgarh reserve in Madhya Pradesh gained momentum on Monday with the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)
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NTCA to re-evaluate tiger reserves
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National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has decided to re-evaluate the country’s tiger reserves on the basis of their efficiency in management.
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Heat wave claims 150 bats
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The tntense heat wave in the region has claimed over 150 Indian flying foxes (bats) near a pond besides Nagpur Central Jail in the past eight days. Named for its physical similarity to a fox, the Indian flying fox are frugivorous (fruit eating) mammals.
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Heat wave takes its toll: 22 chinkaras perish in Barmer
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The high temperature in the state has taken a toll on chinkaras in Barmer district.
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Major fire in Valmiki Nagar tiger reserve, 10 hectares of forest gutted
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A major fire broke out in Valmiki Nagar tiger reserve at Madanpur range near Indo-Nepal border, destroying about ten hectares of forest, a forest official said today.
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Head counting of tigers in Simlipal completed
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Braving many odds, as many as 75 census units have completed the headcounting of tigers in the core area of Simlipal Tiger Reserve(STR) encompassing a total area of 1194 sqkm.
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50 Elephants go on rampage and kill one in West Bengal
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A herd of 50 elephants went on a rampage, destroying standing crops and killing a farmer at Nayagram village in West Bengal's West Midnapore District on Tuesday.
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Global workshop on responsible trade practices
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About 50 delegates from India and abroad would participate in a global workshop on 'Responsible Wood Trade and Forest Certification' here on May 27.
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Tigers of Sunderbans attack human habitations, kill cattle
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Attacks on human habitations, cattle and domestic animals by tigers of the Sunderbans have seen unprecedented rise since the past few months owing to drastic reduction of forest areas and dwindling numbers of prey for the great cats.
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5 tigers stray from Sunderbans
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Five tigers, apparently in search of food, have strayed into villages in the Sunderbans stretching across South 24 Parganas and North 24 Parganas districts of West Bengal in a week.
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14 cheetals die in Gwalior zoo
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Fourteen ‘cheetals' have died in a zoo in Gwalior in last two months due to suspected outbreak of a disease, officials said on Sunday.
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Steps urged to protect Nameri National Park
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A major eco-tourism attraction, Nameri National Park, located along the Assam-Arunachal border in Sonitpur district, which is known for its virgin natural beauty and world famous wild mahsir
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Mounting pressure on biodiversity evokes concern
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In spite of forests being protected by environmental legistations, the anthropogenic stress on the forest resources have been multiplying, threatening the terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity of East Kamrup forests.
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Four poachers killed in Kaziranga National Park
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At least four poachers were killed in an encounter with forest guards in the Kaziranga National Park in Assam's Golaghat District on Friday.
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